Haddock & Company

08/11/2023

Amendments to the Residential Tenancy Act in store.

B.C.'s housing minister says the provincial government is looking at better protections for renters with roommates on the same lease.

07/10/2023

Squamish Nation to adopt the Residential Tenancy Act on new developments on First Nations Lands.

Squamish First Nation will adopt the BC Residential Tenancy Act for its housing projects on-reserve, including for Senakw.

07/10/2023

OPIC overturned on privacy issues re access to AirBnB operator information.

Vancouver housing activist Rohana Rezel has had a beef with Airbnb and the City of Vancouver for years, and a B.C. Supreme Court ruling this week means there's no end in sight.

07/04/2023

Why not make it official!

Premier David Eby said fund will be able to leverage more than its initial sum

07/04/2023

Quebec Manor Housing Co-operative in the news! Great history and lovely building filled with great cooperators.

This old beauty has been there for just over a century now.

06/28/2023

Low interest rates, high interest rates - it just does not seem to matter to the long suffering renters. So if interest rates don't seem to matter, what are you left with? Local government?

According to data from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, condos owned and rented out by private investors make up about 40 per cent of all market-rate apartments in Metro Vancouver.

06/19/2023

I agree!

Co-ops are enjoying a renaissance, for their affordability and long-term security: Armstrong

06/19/2023

The latest from The Office of the Privacy Commissioner on video surveillance on rental properties. Lesson: tell your tenants what you are doing in writing and provide a contact.

Woman said building manager was watching her via surveillance system to see if she had broken the rules.

06/16/2023

Just finished Ask the Experts. That’s a wrap for me! See you next year!

06/16/2023

Day 2 Trade show time! Ask the Experts this afternoon - I’ll be on the panel.

06/15/2023

I’m at the AGM reception. Great opportunity to meet cooperators from across the nation.

06/15/2023

Manufactured Home Parks - a solution right in front of us - but never in Greater Vancouver!

Canada’s largest landlord says manufactured home parks hold the solution to soaring rental and housing costs – and are also ripe for investors

06/15/2023

Having a great time in Ottawa. Great crowd of about 50 at our Preventing Fraud seminar.

06/10/2023

I’m at Island Education Conference in Victoria. Aging in Place presentation this afternoon! CHFBC staff in action!

06/09/2023

Haddock & Company's Ripan Hans will be interviewed this Sunday at 2pm on CBC's Cross Canada Check Up with Ian Hanomansing.

Cross Country Checkup is Canada's only national phone-in show, broadcasting live from coast to coast to coast. Checkup is Canada's weekly town hall — a place for raw, honest perspectives on the most pressing issues of the week. For over 55 years, it's where Canadians gather to listen to each other...

06/03/2023

Rental Protection Fund finds a CEO. I'm expecting great things, including preservation and protection of co-operative housing.

New CEO Katie Maslechko sees fund having ‘ripple effect’ on community housing

05/01/2023

Aging in place is a big deal in housing co-ops as original cooperators get older and try to remain in affordable units in urban centres, often becoming over housed as family members depart.

Faced with a need for accessible homes so that older members can stay in their communities, three Ontario housing co-ops have built new homes.

04/24/2023

This sounds like a really good idea. There would be a lot of knowledge around the table.

The coalition of organizations in BC including BCREA, BCNPHA, and LandlordBC are calling on the Province to create a housing roundtable.

04/08/2023

Making it easier to install EV changers in a strata corporation. Make sure you have proper bylaws in place!

More people living in strata buildings will soon be able to charge their electric vehicles (EVs) at home as the Province has introduced legislation to make it easier for strata corporations and owners to install charging stations.

03/17/2023

Sub-metering of utilities remains a live issue in properties. Is the sub-metering company a landlord? Wow! It's like our many property management clients who get named as the landlord on RTB applications.

For several months,​​ the BC Utilities Commission has been investigating Wyse Meter Solutions, a private company that charges Nanaimo renters directly for water.

03/17/2023

The Haddock & Company crew attended the Advocates Society Vancouver Gala on March 2, 2023. Great to see so many friends in person again! http://ow.ly/lIBn50NkM5k

02/28/2023

This is not a loophole. Nor is it bizarre. Nor does it belong before the Tribunal - because there is no dispute. It's the Ministry trying to deflect on a rule they allowed that has been with us for a long time.

The BC Housing Ministry called what happened to one Vancouver renter bizarre, but didn't step in to help a mom whose rent went up.

02/23/2023

I had not considered this perfect storm - we need more immigration to address the labour shortage to cool inflation but there is no where to house the counted and uncounted newcomers thus putting upward pressure on rents and inflation.

Canada’s explosive population growth from immigration is causing rents to surge in its biggest cities. And there’s another problem: The country isn’t even properly counting the number of people who need homes.

02/16/2023

What a great idea! Way to go .

The Downtown Eastside building for non-profit staff could be one fix for the housing crisis, if employers are willing to make the investment

02/08/2023

Well this is good news for a sustainable industry.

BC has no vacancy control, meaning that when a tenant moves out of a unit, the landlord can set any fee they want for future occupants.

01/30/2023

As of November 1, 2023, minimum CRF contribution rises to 10% of annual budget. Form B is amended as of April 1, 2023 to include insurance information.

As of Nov. 1, 2023, developers and strata corporations will be required to contribute a minimum amount of 10 per cent of annual operating expenses annually, up from the current five per cent.

01/26/2023

I don't have all the stats, but I would have to believe that there are organizations better equipped to provide this service and that the City funds would be better used elsewhere.

“The reality is, not only is it on average one call per day … 60 per cent were other issues related to other jurisdictions,” ABC Coun. Rebecca Bligh said Friday.

01/13/2023

Protecting affordable housing through the new Rental Protection Fund.

More renters in B.C. will be protected from housing speculators and profiteers through the creation of a new $500-million Rental Protection Fund dedicated to protecting tenants and preserving affordable rental homes for decades.

01/13/2023

Big news for the social housing sector!

The fund will enable non-profits to purchase buildings and protect affordability for current and future tenants.

11/21/2022

We are at today! Grant Haddock and Kimberly Little will be speaking at “Ask the Lawyers” at 10:15. Apparently 75+ attendees!

11/09/2022

CHF Canada releases report: Housing Co-ops are historically more affordable than rentals.

Today, a new report comparing housing charges (rents) in co-op housing with rents in similar private market rental buildings was released. It looked at Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa between 2006 and 2021. The report shows that rent trends in non-profit co-op housing differs drama...

09/29/2022

Would'nt this be great!

Vancouver councillor and mayoral candidate Colleen Hardwick says a total $1.5-billion co-op plan could create 6,000 units on city-owned land — and break even over time.

09/28/2022

Interesting comment at the end about residential landlords getting out of the business. Government policy and lack of proper RTB funding is pushing us toward less rental stock, more competition, higher rents - and continued exodus from the GVRD.

Property owner Araz Ounchi says he's been left in a financial lurch after his tenants stopped paying rent.

09/26/2022

This absurd - of all the excellent recommendations and demands made by UBCM on accessible and affordable housing, this is the headline chosen by CBC.

In countries around the world, clothes are often dried outdoors under the warm sun, but in B.C. strict bylaws keep many residents from setting up a clothesline or putting out a drying rack.

09/22/2022

CHF BC

Please join us online or in person for brand new workshops at our 2022 Fall Education Conference on Saturday, October 22, 2022.

09/09/2022

Remembering the Queen. The photo is of my grandfather, Courtney Haddock, then Mayor of Victoria on the occasion of the 1971 Royal Visit.

08/30/2022

REITs coming under fire from the NDP government. They really are buying up anything they can get their hands on. http://ow.ly/sUJP50Kv5SI

New Democratic party housing critic Jenny Kwan was in Nanaimo for round-table discussion

08/22/2022

Seriously? Can't decide? Could it be a balancing act between keeping voters happy, bankrupting those who house the voter base and an underway leadership race. AKA, utterly political. http://ow.ly/mye750KpPGS

The B.C. government says it's still working to determine how much landlords can raise rents in 2023, but is committing to it being below the rate of inflation.